Time goes by quickly?

[bikertomm]

Does anyone else struggle with time?

I feel like everyday, the day is over within like 4 hours.

Up at 7, brain dead commute of 1 Hour 10 Mins,

Lunchtime - you guessed it, feels like it's over in about 10 minutes.

Work till 5.30

Brain dead commute home of 1 Hour 10 Mins,

Do something productive e.g. research other ways to make money / try and learn about stocks and shares / look into career options / obviously look at cars & bikes / go to the gym.

Faff about making something half decent to eat - Which rather luckily mum helps out quite a bit! Eat

Struggle to ever watch any tv programmes (Not that I'm bothered) But it takes me like a month or two to watch anything people are on about at work, that sometimes they have watched in 1 sitting! I never ever just sit in front of the tv and watch shit.

Sleep

Repeat.


Or am I just being hormonal? Anyone else experienced this? It's like I don't want to give in to a 'normal' working week of ~40 hours. It's on my mind constantly, I want to make a break I just haven't discovered how just yet.

Everyone else seems to be set in the mindframe of work, sleep, repeat but I just don't want to accept it, I get on perfectly well at work always kept busy and don't mind what I do, just always feel as though there's actually 'no time' to get on and research anything, because well, work. Who doesn't want to dream about better prospects / earning more. I won't give in though.

This is not what I define as 'living', it really does not feel right killing ourselves to get out of bed, to then sit in cages for hours on end? I'm not wanting to sound like a hipster bellend who's afraid of work or anything so hope it isn't coming across that way. I worked in Croydon for 2 years aged 18-20 which was 6.45am starts and getting home for 8.15-8.30pm.

I don't want to give in to a mundane life basically. I'm sure people have far, far busier days than me too. Wondering if I could maybe work 4 days a week to free up some pure research time, then I don't want my employer to think "What the fuck, he's obviously not taking this seriously."

I guess it's just recently reminded me, the amount of effort I'm having to put in just to free up an hour here or there to be able to go the gym is hard work.

It's fine to call me a whining little bitch. I just needed to get it off my chest. BCF Aidz bro hug? Maybe this is just a standard humans thought process going through the 21st century, who knows.

Anyway, off to sleep in order to repeat. Catch you next in my lunchbreak!

Thoughts and/or man up pills welcome.

Cheers.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Absolutely. I look forward to the weekend, then sleep late, waste the day but feel that's what I needed, and before I know it I'm back at work. There's an element of unfulfillment and depression about this but I just man up and soldier on. Career wise I'm getting nowhere and worry about my retirement prospects. It's a rat trap Billy... Still, I'm led to believe that being a mother and a housewife is tougher so...

[Ariel Badger]

Because period. Hot water bottle and pyjamas.
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[Itchy]

My own theory on this is landmark theory.

Exemplified by my long trip. I travelled on roads with unchanging terrain and scenery. It was hard to tell how far I had travelled due to the lack of landmarks.

Imagine if you were driving across a featureless white road, with no scenery it's hard to judge speed, it's hard judge the passage of time. If there were big interesting statues at the side of the road or billboards or whatever you can see them get bigger as you approach them and smaller as you drive away from them.

When your life is fairly regular and normal due to the lack of landmarks or significant events you don't really remember the time in between similar to how your nose can't smell your own stinky breath.

My dad said the same things. The man worked the same job every single day for 35 years. His job used to be exciting in the 70s as violence against Chinese was common. He can talk endlessly about this time. He can talk endlessly about the time when he drove a van because things happened.

He doesn't talk so much about the good times as very little happened.

So how to counter it? Do stuff which is significantly outside of your comfort zone. Try new things, build land marks. As I state in my sig life will flash before your eyes quickly, make sure it's worth watching!


Also remind yourself that time on earth is limited. Christian art reflects this with skulls and images of death.

These new things may be small things, they maybe cheap things, expensive things. But even if they don't work out you can laugh about them later or think well I tried that...
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[Going]

I'm trying to work out how I become 5 years older every year.
Also something needs to be done about the days length, 24 hours is to short unless your Jack Bauer.

[DRZ4Hunned]

Go on holiday to some poverty-stricken shithole, gets you away from your routine whilst making you appreciate what you have for when you return to the daily slog.
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[bikertomm]

Wow, great responses already - thanks.

Guess what, it's eating into my sleeping time but feck it.

I guess I've done pretty well for my age group. I finished college at 17 after doing Public Services (wanted to join the Police) and funnily enough learning about it all put me completely off it. Looking back, was the right decision. So at 18 I worked at a supermarket for 6 months, probably some rants on here about that too. (TL;DR treated like shit.)

Got into engineering drawing / CAD work and gone from there at 18. Still seen very very little of the massive industry though. I've managed to save pretty uniformly, and was self-employed at 19 (pure luck) I'm not anymore. Now I need to learn knowledge in a specific area to be any good, and where I'm currently at I'm struggling to get motivated.

Most of my friends have only just come out of university and are just working 'normal' jobs, which is fine. Market trading keeps entering my head and shouting at me. I finished a 2 year course at Uni last year which I self funded, I've got no overheads, I'm young - If I give something a go now and it fails so be it, at least I've tried. Have something to fall back on worst case.

Can't think of much worse than to keep working for a (relative) pittance and go into a spiral of depression!

I could potentially buy myself a nice car, go round the world, but I'm not a materialistic kind of person. Nothing motivates me more than wanting a holiday home somewhere and earning enough to 'not give a fuck' however. Itchy, you are so not helping for me wanting to at least see some of the world.

Work to live, not live to work I think is an apt motto..

I guess to make things worse and bring it back to reality, the other night I found out a mutual person I know (keen cyclist) was out training and got hit from behind by a car at 50mph and died the following morning. He was 2 years younger than me. This has been secretly on my mind since, and makes you realise that you really do only get one chance on this earth and time is precious. Effectively all my problems blown into insignificance.

I spent the entire summer last year when it was blazing hot outside in a stuffy office thinking 'Hmm, I don't actually need to be here?' but didn't change anything. Need to get my act together!

Sorry if this was somewhat scattered, my brains all over the place!
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[grr666]

How old are you Tomm?
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[bikertomm]

[grr666]

22 I have shirts older than you

Wait until you are double that age mate, not only is there an overwhelming feeling of 'treadmill', but
the time goes by MUCH faster as well emphasising how little you've achieved in said time.
Best advice, marry someone ten years younger (Maybe not quite now... ). I'd be 'older' than I am if I hadn't got
my nice young Mrs to keep me on my toes. It encourages me to stay in shape and keep doing new stuff. Feeling
young (and indeed feeling someone young )keeps you looking young too, last time I was ID'd (albeit in the USA) I was 38.

Being ones own boss helps a lot, doing the bidding of others is soul destroying long term. What do you do?
What are you good at? It's a big leap from the relative safety from PAYE employment, but I'd never work for someone
else anymore.
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[Rogerborg]

Potential problem identified:

https://i.imgur.com/h9DjkYj.jpg?1

2 1/2 hours a day commuting, presumably into That London? Even if you win the rat race, the prize is eating your own young.

Other locations are available.
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[grr666]

^^^
Couldn't agree more. My life has honestly just gotten better and better since I put that toilet permamently in my rear
view mirror. I have come to dislike the place so much that I now deliberately refrain from visiting my parents,
my sister and her kids who are still living there. I've pretty much permanently fallen out with them over it now
but regardless I will never go back. It was revelatory moving from London back into England, it's genuinely taken years off
of me. I'm healthier since I've been in the West country, I've stopped smoking (nearly 3 years off the fags now) and my
blood pressure has normalised again. I never realised while I was living in London just how much I actually hated it and
what a negative effect it was having on my general health and to a degree mental well being.

For starters, the air is much cleaner here. When I reluctantly do visit London having spent some prolonged time
breathing comparitively unpolluted air again, I have come to realise that London literally stinks. Efficient use of time
in constant pursuit of £££ isn't quite such an obsession here either. Even on the road I noticed a change, it took
me 6 months of driving around here before I got that London out of my head and (reluctantly at first) adopted the slightly
more leisurely West Country mindset. It infuriated me at first while I was detoxing, "Bumbling bumpkin fuckwits!!!"
was a regular exclamation of mine when I first came here, but now I wouldn't change it for anything. I should add
that the demographic here is such that my town has no Mosque, nor any plans to add one in the foreseeable. It
certainly seems to takes all that racial tension right out of the equation when there are very very few foreigners in
an area. The crime rate here in my middle sized town of about 22k people is all but nil. A rational man may say
that there's a definite correlation between those two factors. But I couldn't possibly comment.
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[Suntan Sid]

OP, have you considered working abroad, widening your horizons and all that?
It was the best thing I ever did, I got a job, initially on a three year contract, never had a problem finding another contract to go to. In fact I never had to apply for another job, offers just kept rolling in!
If you can save a bit of money from your first contract, (an emergency fund if you will), there's not that much to worry about.
The worst that can happen is you come back to the UK!
If the worst doesn't happen, you get to see the world, experience something other than drudgery in the UK and the weather is guaranteed to be better!
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[Suntan Sid]

[winz]

I know the feeling. Since starting my own business I have realised how much time I spend in my office. 10 hour days are the norm, I don't socialise like I used to. I wake up, check emails, get on with work, next thing I realise it's lunch time. Back to work and then it's 6pm.

Have no idea where January went. Luckily I am treating myself to 3 weeks in Thailand for my 30th and all my clients know I won't be working. Having some time out is going to be delightful.

As mentioned above, being in London probably isn't helping. Plus 2+ hours a day commuting? Feck dat, life is too short.

If you aren't motivated, why don't you try something different career wise?
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[bikertomm]

[bikertomm]

[Suntan Sid]

[orac]

[Lord Percy]

[smegballs]

I feel much the same.

I have a (shit) engineering degree but instead get lowish wage jobs and save up money in between going on adventures around the world. I've pretty got my life set up to facilitate this, all my stuff fits into 6 of those plastic packing crates (hopefully down to 3 crates when I move out of my house in a month) so it's not a big deal to store these at my dads when I go. Practical things like my audio gear and PC etc I just lend out to mates.

My current job is a security guard and it is amazing in that you can work on yourself whilst at work. This week at work I've been reviewing some electronics RF design and designing a radio receiver as well as getting loads of French practice in.

The hours are long admittedly, but it's a good way to save in between travelling and it allows me to benefit myself and get paid to do it!

[Suntan Sid]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

[DRZ4Hunned]

Be careful about 'gap yarhs', I know a lot of employers won't hire people that have left sixth form/ uni and gone travelling because they think they won't be as committed to staying with them.
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